Re: Informational RFC-to-be - draft-rfced-info-touch-00.txt

Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com> Sat, 23 March 1996 01:01 UTC

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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 17:00:52 -0800
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From: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: Informational RFC-to-be - draft-rfced-info-touch-00.txt
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At 3:52 PM 3/21/96, Steve Coya wrote:
>Is anyone other than me overly concerned over the large number of rfced
>documents being submitted? Not that they are being submitted per se,
>but the ratio of non-standards track documents to standards track
>documents is getting larger and larger.

I can tell you that the incidence of them from the PPP community is
directly related to the number and length of time sitting waiting for
action in the IESG's in basket. This is called "when the process stops
working, screw the process."

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